Zeyad presented this morning on the Open XML SDK at PDC. You can view the video of the talk here – it’s on day four, titled Open XML Format SDK: Developing Open XML Solutions. (The video will be available sometime on 10/31/2008). The demos for that talk are attached as a zip file to this post.

Zeyad presented this morning on the Open XML SDK at PDC. You can view the video of the talk here – it’s on day four, titled Open XML Format SDK: Developing Open XML Solutions. (The video will be available sometime on 10/31/2008). The demos...

Anders Hejlsberg presented a fascinating and entertaining session at PDC 2008 on C# 4.0 . He talked about dynamic typing, optional and named parameters, improved COM interoperability, and improved support for co-variance and contra-variance. These language...

Merging multiple word processing documents into a single document is something that many people want to do. An application built for attorneys might assemble selected standard clauses into a contract. An application built for book publishers can assemble...

I have a couple of nice computers that I use for SharePoint development. In this post, I’m going to share the configuration of my setup. This isn’t to say that this is the only good way to set up hardware for SharePoint development. However...

I was in a meeting this afternoon, and someone said that they wished that there was a comparison of XPath expressions and LINQ to XML queries. Well, this already exists in the LINQ to XML documentation . The topic title is LINQ to XML for XPath Users...

If you are a writer, there is no substitute for making writing and language a focus of intense study. When you write, you don’t want anything to obstruct your message. Bad writing, more than anything else, will prevent your readers from learning...

Data-bound content controls are a powerful and convenient way to separate the semantic business data from the markup of an Open XML document. After binding content controls to custom XML, you can query the document for the business data by looking in...

Steve Fox and Bill Sheldon have put together an example application that shows deep integration of the Office Client with SharePoint. Office Business Application (OBAs) such as this one address the gap between the idealized world where business processes...

Every now and then, I need to have a source of data for an example or proof of concept that I’m building. In my focus on LINQ to XML, Open XML, and now SharePoint, it’s pretty rare that I have to directly use a SQL database. I only do so maybe...

A company named SpreadsheetGear has announced support for Open XML. Their product’s purpose is to make Windows Forms based and ASP.NET based reports and dashboards from Excel worksheets and charts. In-cell editing and an optional FormulaBar control...